Mike Williams

Government Cash Management

I can offer: policy advice, project management, training and mentoring covering:

  • Passive and active cash management strategies
    • International practice [Presentation] presentation
    • Managing the Treasury Single Account
    • Smoothing cash flows; rough tuning and fine tuning
    • Short-term borrowing and lending strategies
  • Cash forecasting [Note on Forecasting in UK] Read PDF
    • Database requirements
    • Techniques and information availability
  • Interaction with budget policy and execution, and monetary policy
    • Co-ordination with fiscal policy; budget planning and budget execution
    • Information flows
    • Co-ordination with monetary policy; respective responsibilities with central bank; day-to-day interaction, including end-of-day balancing of accounts
    • MOUs and service level agreements with central bank
  • Money market development
    • Range of instruments
    • Building bill and repo markets
    • Co-ordination with central bank and financial regulators.

Relevant Publications

Mike Williams: "Government Cash Management: Good and Bad Practice"
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